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This supplement to the 2002 law school casebook includes recent developments in campaign-finance law, including detailed analysis of the three-judge court decision in the McCain-Feingold litigation, an analysis of the 2000 round of redistricting, with a focus on the policy and legal implications of the most aggressive round of gerrymandering in many decades. It also includes new materials on the role of race and the Voting Rights Act in the 2000 redistricting, with a focus on the Supreme Court's decision in Georgia v. Ashcroft.